People lined up outside the post office in Dr. Runnel's store in Skagway waiting to pick up mail, probably 1897
After gold was discovered in the Yukon Territory, thousands of people left for the Klondike to join in the gold rush in the Summer of 1897. Shows Frank Reid (second person left of righthand tree), editor and Miss DeSucca (between the center trees), and S. F. White, a real estate man (leaning against...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:warner/417 2023-05-15T16:00:22+02:00 People lined up outside the post office in Dr. Runnel's store in Skagway waiting to pick up mail, probably 1897 Warner, Arthur Churchill, 1864-1943 United States--Alaska--Skagway probably 1897 b&w Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/warner/id/417 unknown Arthur Churchill Warner Photographs WAR0402 University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Order Number or Negative Number] http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/warner/id/417 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Arthur Churchill Warner Photograph Collection. PH Coll 273 Post offices--Alaska--Skagway Queues--Alaska--Skagway Photograph; image 1897 ftuwashingtonlib 2021-08-21T22:53:15Z After gold was discovered in the Yukon Territory, thousands of people left for the Klondike to join in the gold rush in the Summer of 1897. Shows Frank Reid (second person left of righthand tree), editor and Miss DeSucca (between the center trees), and S. F. White, a real estate man (leaning against the tree). The site is the present 5th Street between Broadway and State. Warner 111 For those now living so far from home, getting to the gold fields may have seemed easy compared to getting their mail. Both the Canadian and the U.S. government were caught off guard by the speed and volume of the stampede. During the summer, mail could be carried by boat along the Yukon from St. Michael's, Alaska, but winter mail was brought up from Skagway, across the pass and into Dawson by dog sled. First class mail had the best chance of getting through, especially during winter months. Everything else was left for summer steamships. [Source: National Postal Museum web site, http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/almostamericans.htm] Other/Unknown Material Dawson Skagway Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon |
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After gold was discovered in the Yukon Territory, thousands of people left for the Klondike to join in the gold rush in the Summer of 1897. Shows Frank Reid (second person left of righthand tree), editor and Miss DeSucca (between the center trees), and S. F. White, a real estate man (leaning against the tree). The site is the present 5th Street between Broadway and State. Warner 111 For those now living so far from home, getting to the gold fields may have seemed easy compared to getting their mail. Both the Canadian and the U.S. government were caught off guard by the speed and volume of the stampede. During the summer, mail could be carried by boat along the Yukon from St. Michael's, Alaska, but winter mail was brought up from Skagway, across the pass and into Dawson by dog sled. First class mail had the best chance of getting through, especially during winter months. Everything else was left for summer steamships. [Source: National Postal Museum web site, http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/almostamericans.htm] |
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People lined up outside the post office in Dr. Runnel's store in Skagway waiting to pick up mail, probably 1897 |
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People lined up outside the post office in Dr. Runnel's store in Skagway waiting to pick up mail, probably 1897 |
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People lined up outside the post office in Dr. Runnel's store in Skagway waiting to pick up mail, probably 1897 |
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People lined up outside the post office in Dr. Runnel's store in Skagway waiting to pick up mail, probably 1897 |
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People lined up outside the post office in Dr. Runnel's store in Skagway waiting to pick up mail, probably 1897 |
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people lined up outside the post office in dr. runnel's store in skagway waiting to pick up mail, probably 1897 |
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Dawson Skagway Alaska Yukon |
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Arthur Churchill Warner Photographs WAR0402 University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, [Order Number or Negative Number] http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/warner/id/417 |
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